Sunday, December 5, 2021

Penge Revisited (Again)

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Perhaps I keep going back to Penge because living there nearly a half century ago was the last time I experienced being part of what I thoug...
Monday, November 22, 2021

Doin' Her Utmost to mix pop with feeling

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The new single by The Big Believe 'Doin’ My Utmost' C/W 'Hundreds' is a writing collaboration between Amanda Thompson and D...
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Thursday, November 18, 2021

A Man in a Purple Dress

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Passion, anger, self-righteousness, humility, equivocation. It’s all in here. Unsurprisingly this late period Pete Townshend/Who song says m...
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Saturday, August 7, 2021

Free and experimental music at the Kino-Teatr St Leonard's

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Hastings and St Leonard’s music scene is re-emerging in difficult, even controversial, circumstances. However in the large, open and relativ...
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Monday, April 12, 2021

Interring the state with the bones of its leader’s husband

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I don't believe in disrespecting any public figures at the moment of their death. However I was appalled that Prince Philip, who held no...
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Monday, March 29, 2021

A Labour leader with intellect and passion who advocated defence, patriotism and peace

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Michael Foot's reply to Margaret Thatcher in the emergency House of Commons' Falkland Islands debate in April 1982 was the speech ...
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Saturday, November 7, 2020

Necessary Animals: The indefinability of 'Dark Jazz'

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The beating heart of Necessary Animals , its nucleus and core creative partnership, are the musician, composer and musical auteur Keith Rodw...